David Rossiter
@davidprossiter.bsky.social
Coordinator @coalition2030.bsky.social | Long-suffering but ever-optimistic Drogheda United fan
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The price of coffee is at its highest in decades — bad news for caffeine-lovers, but good for bean farmers in Vietnam profiting from global demand
The Instant Coffee Boom Is Changing Farmers’ Fortunes
The price of coffee is at its highest in decades — bad news for caffeine-lovers, but good for bean farmers in Vietnam profiting from global demand.
www.bloomberg.com
April 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The price of coffee is at its highest in decades — bad news for caffeine-lovers, but good for bean farmers in Vietnam profiting from global demand
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Rewilding offers *so* much.
Perhaps above all: HOPE.
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Perhaps above all: HOPE.
🌏
April 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Rewilding offers *so* much.
Perhaps above all: HOPE.
🌏
Perhaps above all: HOPE.
🌏
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Anyone intentionally starting wildfires at this time of year, under the current conditions, deserves some time for reflection in a prison cell.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-mourne-...
www.thejournal.ie/fire-mourne-...
'Major' fire in Mourne Mountains believed to have been started deliberately
Emergency repsponders worked overnight to contain the fire.
www.thejournal.ie
April 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Anyone intentionally starting wildfires at this time of year, under the current conditions, deserves some time for reflection in a prison cell.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-mourne-...
www.thejournal.ie/fire-mourne-...
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Big news from the wee six this evening
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Big news from the wee six this evening
March 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Yes Rachel. Fuck em
March 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Yes Rachel. Fuck em
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An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
March 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
Another imperious away performance. Back three of Keeley, Quinn and Cooper all so solid. Cooper looks like a great arrival along with Lambe at right wing back.
Perfect goal from Warren Davis to top it off.
#SuperDrogs
Perfect goal from Warren Davis to top it off.
#SuperDrogs
March 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Another imperious away performance. Back three of Keeley, Quinn and Cooper all so solid. Cooper looks like a great arrival along with Lambe at right wing back.
Perfect goal from Warren Davis to top it off.
#SuperDrogs
Perfect goal from Warren Davis to top it off.
#SuperDrogs
I'm fully convinced that if fascism had never existed in the past century and emerged as a new ideology today, it would look exactly like the United States in 2025.
We now have generative AI to hallucinate a past that never was, while simultaneously purging the digital archives of traces of a history that doesn't fit the white supremacist ideology of our new techno-fascist overlords. It‘s getting darker every day
The Pentagon has marked 26,000 photos for deletion to purge evidence of diversity.
The photos include the 1st black pilots in WWII, the 1st women to pass infantry training & the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb because it’s called the “Enola GAY”.
This is real. We’re living in a horror story.
The photos include the 1st black pilots in WWII, the 1st women to pass infantry training & the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb because it’s called the “Enola GAY”.
This is real. We’re living in a horror story.
March 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I'm fully convinced that if fascism had never existed in the past century and emerged as a new ideology today, it would look exactly like the United States in 2025.
Jennifer Coolidge is dead, long live Jennifer Coolidge.
March 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Jennifer Coolidge is dead, long live Jennifer Coolidge.
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“A colossal missed opportunity” - a clear message in a new report from from Ireland’s fiscal and climate advisory councils.
Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets
Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets
March 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
“A colossal missed opportunity” - a clear message in a new report from from Ireland’s fiscal and climate advisory councils.
Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets
Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets
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The new government aren't wasting any time. Plans are afoot to increase fares on public transport.
Meanwhile electricity prices for some households will increase by 10% from April and Micheál Martin wants landlords to be able to increase your rent.
Meanwhile electricity prices for some households will increase by 10% from April and Micheál Martin wants landlords to be able to increase your rent.
March 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The new government aren't wasting any time. Plans are afoot to increase fares on public transport.
Meanwhile electricity prices for some households will increase by 10% from April and Micheál Martin wants landlords to be able to increase your rent.
Meanwhile electricity prices for some households will increase by 10% from April and Micheál Martin wants landlords to be able to increase your rent.
Heartbreaking. Still can't believe this practice isn't severely clamped down on.
On Friday, a whole mountain west of Glengarriff was burnt, with a wall of flames visible through the night for miles around.
It's pure ecocide, layered on top of ecocide (sheep), and it just beggars belief that this is still going on in the year 2025.
It's pure ecocide, layered on top of ecocide (sheep), and it just beggars belief that this is still going on in the year 2025.
March 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Heartbreaking. Still can't believe this practice isn't severely clamped down on.
The butterfly effect...
March 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The butterfly effect...
Powerful imagery from The New European. Atlanticism is dead (for four more years anyway).
March 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Powerful imagery from The New European. Atlanticism is dead (for four more years anyway).
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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
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Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
February 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
As long as Drogs Larger tastes like Dundalk fans tears then I'm all in.
🤝 Drogheda United are delighted to announce that from tomorrow, Friday, February 28, NoFo Brew Co. craft beer will be available in Sullivan & Lambe Park!
More information on the partnership, & the select range of craft beers available ⬇️
🔗 droghedaunited.ie/nofo/
🟣🔵 #WeAreDrogs | #OurTownOurClub
More information on the partnership, & the select range of craft beers available ⬇️
🔗 droghedaunited.ie/nofo/
🟣🔵 #WeAreDrogs | #OurTownOurClub
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
As long as Drogs Larger tastes like Dundalk fans tears then I'm all in.
Felt the warmth of the sun on my face for the first time in months. Goodbye Irish winter hello Irish springtime ☀️
February 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Felt the warmth of the sun on my face for the first time in months. Goodbye Irish winter hello Irish springtime ☀️
Me every time I see a new government proposal to fix housing
February 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Me every time I see a new government proposal to fix housing
More cabin based Airbnb rentals on the way...
Planning rules on cabins and modular homes in back gardens could be relaxed as part of Government efforts to tackle the housing crisis
Move to ease planning laws for back garden modular homes
Planning rules on cabins and modular homes in back gardens could be relaxed as part of Government efforts to tackle the housing crisis.
www.rte.ie
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
More cabin based Airbnb rentals on the way...
Delighted to see the Fleadh will be coming to Belfast. The Fleadh is one of the most unique music festivals in the world. A real confidence boost for the city to host it.
History to be made as Fleadh Cheoil to be held in Belfast for first time
History to be made as Fleadh Cheoil to be held in Belfast for first time
Festival of Irish music and arts to return to the north for only the second time in its history
www.irishnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Delighted to see the Fleadh will be coming to Belfast. The Fleadh is one of the most unique music festivals in the world. A real confidence boost for the city to host it.
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Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies
February 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies